Stocks edged higher in on Wall Street after a report showed that the U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in December. The major...
Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet
Label: LifestyleKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a trip down the red carpet at the Oscars.It will also be his first time out of the country and his first time on a plane.Mohammadi was plucked from the dingy streets of the Afghan...
Well: Expressing the Inexpressible
Label: HealthWhen Kyle Potvin learned she had breast cancer at the age of 41, she tracked the details of her illness and treatment in a journal. But when it came to grappling with issues of mortality, fear and hope, she found that her best outlet was poetry.How I feared chemo, afraidIt would change me.It did.Something dissolved inside me.Tears began a slow drip;I cried at the news storyOf a lost boy found in the...
Retail sales rise 5.8%, but cold weather and payroll taxes sting
Label: Business Shoppers trod carefully in January, lured into stores by retailers dangling post-holiday clearance deals but spending sparingly...
Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens
Label: LifestylePAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — The Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker Hasbro Inc. announced Wednesday.The results were announced after the shoe, wheelbarrow and iron were neck and neck for elimination in the final hours of voting that sparked passionate efforts by fans to save their...
Well: Gluten-Free for the Gluten Sensitive
Label: HealthEat no wheat.That is the core, draconian commandment of a gluten-free diet, a prohibition that excises wide swaths of American cuisine — cupcakes, pizza, bread and macaroni and cheese, to name a few things.For the approximately one-in-a-hundred Americans who have a serious condition called celiac disease, that is an indisputably wise medical directive.One woman’s story of going gluten-free.Now medical...
Time Warner to increase original programming on TNT and TBS
Label: Business Time Warner plans to dramatically boost the amount of original programming on its TBS and TNT cable channels.In a call with...
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Friends, investigators seek answers in killing of O.C. couple
Label: World They met in college, two highly regarded basketball players who seemed to have the same winning touch on the court and off.After...
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